Bill McPherson: An Appreciation

Recalling the writer and editor, who passed away earlier this week.

Identity Crisis

The “white Jewish” question posed in The Human Stain.

Presidents as Authors

Dozens of commanders-in-chief have penned books.

Listening to Dylan Now

Rethinking my initial reaction to the musician’s Nobel Prize.

City of Writes

Why Washington, DC, is the ideal literary locale.

Hemingway and JFK

The author, the president, and Cuba

In Praise of NaNoWriMo

How the yearly novel-writing event continues to guide my fiction

In Defense of English

Taking exception to a critic’s harsh assessment